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SAXIFRAGA CUSCUTIFORMIS. DoppER-LIKE 
SAXIFRAGE. 
KEKE EERE EERE EEK 
Class and Order. 
Decanpria Dieynia. 
Generic Character. | 
Cal. 5-fidus, persistens. Petala 5. Caps. birostris, 
1-locularis, polysperma. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Saxirraca cuscutiformis ; foliis suborbiculatis subpedatis 
crenato-sinuatis reticulatis, scapis subbifloris, stoloni- 
bus filiformibus. : 
Saxirraca cuscuteformis. Lodd. Cab. 186. 
A small herbaceous plant, with filiform creeping runners 
ofa red colour. Leaves suborbiculate, subpedate, fleshy, 
hairy, beautifully netted with white veins, especially on 
the upper surface. Scape about two-flowered, hairy. Pe- 
duncles long, erect, one-flowered. Calyx five-parted, per- 
sistent ; segments oval, obtuse, deep green, equal. Petals 
five, lanceolate, white, nearly of equal length, four times 
longer than calyx, much narrowed at the base. Stamens 
ten, three or four times shorter than the petals. Germen 
bilobed : Styles divaricate: Stigmas subcapitate. 
We do not find any mention made of this elegant little 
plant any where except in the Botanical Cabinet. It is 
very nearly related to Saxirraca sarmentosa, and in any 
arrangement of the genus ought to follow that species, 
though the styles are very divaricate. The petals being all 
lanceolate, and nearly equal in size, at once determines it to 
be a distinct species, and not a variety of sarmentosa. — 
Communicated by Messrs. Loppices and Sons, in May, 
1825, who inform us, in their Cabinet, that it is a native of 
China, and may be cultivated in the greenhouse, in small — 
pots with loam. Its name was derived from the likeness of 
the slender runners to the stems of Cuscuta, or Dodder. 
